unpromising
Example Sentences
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Then there was World War II. Given Cooper’s eye injury and poor physique, he made for an unpromising soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
The port of L.A. has come far from its unpromising beginnings.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025
To figure out how to revegetate this unpromising ground, Olympic National Park hired then–36-year-old Chenoweth.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 18, 2023
From this unpromising site have risen stacks of factory-built steel modules punctuated by little green spaces.
From New York Times • May 5, 2023
Yet despite the unpromising set- ting, the Marajoara created a sophisticated society there from about 800 to 1400 a.d.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
